I'm barb me I'm transportation, planner in the transportation department at the city of Asheville, Complete Streets are about designing streets for all users, all ages, all abilities and making it easy and comfortable to go along the street and to get across the street. Complete Streets are about all users, they're about the cars and the trucks, but they're also about people walking people taking the bus people riding their bike. So it's a balance and we seek to balance those users and their comfort in the way that we build and operate our streets.

It's not just can I get to the end of my block, but it's. Where is getting to the end of my blog get me: does it get me to a bus? Stop? Is it comfortable to get there?

Could I get there if I was using a walker in a wheelchair every time we touch a street if we can leave it better, we've made a start and we seek to make it better in big ways like we did on College Street College Street used to have lots of lanes and not a lot of cars using it, and now it's got bigger sidewalks and bike lanes and places for people to cross the street.

The cars and trucks are still getting through, and people who are walking along the street or riding their bike on the street are so much more comfortable and safe. Doing that central avenue is another good example where it's not such a big conversion, like college street, was Central. Avenue is pretty complete. When we started there was a street there.

There were sidewalks what we did on Central Avenue was we added a shared lane marching for bicycles and those are to remind drivers that you're sharing the lane with bicycles that there's really not enough room to pass a bicyclist and stay in your lane, and it also reminds bicyclists to stay where they're visible and where they're away from the door swing of a car. That's parked.

Central Avenue was taking care of people walking because there were sidewalks there and safe places to cross, and it was taking care of the cars and the trucks, and now we've just added that peace. I hope that helps you understand a little more about Complete Streets and what we are doing to get there. Our next project is on livingston street will be doing the design this year and in fact we have a public meeting coming up. September. Third, at five-thirty p.m. in the dr. Wesley grant senior southside center down on livingston street.

I hope you can join us.

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